Thousands of people begin to gather in Brasilia for the inauguration of Lula da Silva

Thousands of people have begun to gather this Sunday in the political heart of Brasilia for the inauguration as Brazilian president of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvawho assumes for the third time the power that he already exercised during two consecutive periods, between 2003 and 2010.

According to forecasts, the official ceremony will begin at 2:30 p.m. local time (5:30 p.m. GMT), when Lula will arrive at one end of the Esplanade of the Ministriesavenue in which all the public power buildings are located and in which the acts will be concentrated, for which some 300,000 people are expected.

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You will then take a tour in a vehicle, which if the weather conditions allow it will be a Rolls Royce model “Silver Wraith” without top of the Brazilian Presidency, in which he will be accompanied by his wife, Rosângela “Janja” da Silva.

However, you will likely parade in front of the crowd in a closed carbecause until now the forecast for the time of the act foresees heavy rains, typical of this time in Brasilia.

The tour will conclude at the Parliament building, where Lula will be sworn in and will deliver his first speech. as president in front of all the national political power and delegations from fifty countries, which will include twenty heads of state and government.

Among them, the King of Spain and the presidents of Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, as well as those of Germany and Portugal.

After that speech, You will move to the neighboring Planalto Palace, the seat of the Presidency, which you will enter by a ramp that leads from the street to the first floor of the building.

Then the crowd gathered in the Esplanade of the Ministries will address from the “parlatorio”, a kind of large pulpit outside the Planalto Palace, and will sign the investiture terms of the 37 ministers that his Government will have.

Before that second speech, he will receive the presidential sash in the “parlatorium”, which will not be given to him by the outgoing president, Jair Bolsonaro, as required by protocol, because the leader of the extreme right, who did not accept his electoral defeat, traveled to the United States last Friday.

According to sources close to the new government, although it has not yet been confirmedthe idea is that Lula receives the sash from a small group of people, who would symbolize in the act “the diversity of democratic Brazil.”

The official ceremonies will conclude with a reception that will be offered by Lula to foreign delegations at the Itamaraty Palace, headquarters of the Foreign Ministry, located about five hundred meters from the seat of Government.

Coinciding with the reception, the so-called Festival of the Future will begin, a concert that will bring together fifty popular artists and whose curtain is expected to come down late Monday morning.

Source: Elcomercio

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